Word: arsons
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...footsteps of Owen Davis's play, except at the single point where he should have stuck closer than a brother. He does not have the wastrel ex-doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady spite. The cinema producer has the arson committed purely by accident, obviously to keep the censor from snaking a reproving finger. What was good enough to win the Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus the ne'er-do-well of the play, discontented with...
...collected $170,000 following a fire at his hangars at Central Park, L. I. He now has won his second suit against the Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. and the Commercial Union Assurance Co. The underwriters sought to recover their money on the basis of a confession of arson and conspiracy by Larsen's mechanic. But the confession extracted by detectives employed by a personal enemy of Larsen's, under threats of the application of the Mann Act, failed to impress the jury. The case aroused much interest in aircraft circles, involving as it did the reputation...
...under the lax Administration of the previous Governor, Harrison. There have been reports of impending revolution in the Philippines because of their "incendiary" attacks. But revolution is most improbable; Messrs. Quezon and Osmena would gain nothing by it. They play with matches, but they have no intention of committing arson. They capitalize politically the popular emotion which can be inflamed by an appeal for independence. They do not want an unsuccessful attempt at revolution. They want the Philippine Government placed in the hands of Filipinos?in their own hands?by the appointment of a Filipino Governor or by independence...
...have dropped at the first shot, although a statement issued by the Free State Government said that only " blank " ammunition was used. Friends tried to rescue their leader. He was pulled from the platform and carried?into the arms of the troops, who arrested him on the charge of arson and murder...
...significance of this event, called the most important development in socialism since the Russian revolution, is that the fundamental issue will be debated under conditions where its advocates support a programme including neither arson nor bomb-throwing, and where those opposed will not demand jail sentences for Socialists at the mention of the word. The present opportunity is the first a government has had to discuss so vital a problem in the atmosphere of a budget debate, the first time that socialism has had as cool attention as a financial report...